[HPforGrownups] Percy

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 55233

Stickbook wrote:

>For the immediate future (Book 5), I can see Percy having a personal
>crisis.  After all, someone he really respected and admired turned
>out to be not so squeaky-clean, and was then murdered.  What a
>horrendous let-down, especially for your first job out of school!  I

I agree that it's been a rude awakening. I've always seen our Perce as being
idealistic and a bit priggish and suddenly he's had a rude awakening into
the fact that politics can be a dirty world.

>can imagine that now Percy is also unemployed, which is always
>stressful.  I feel sorry for the guy, after a lifetime of drive and
>aspirations for the Ministry, suddenly finds himself without
>direction.  Percy might be confused about his family and the Ministry
>being on opposite sides of a political divide, but I don't think that
>he'd take up with a bureaucracy that has shown itself to be quite
>ineffective during an emergency.

I'm not sure why it would leave him unemployed. One of the things about the
MoM is that even if you take an individual out, the department and its
functions still have to carry on. It could be that Percy would get promotion
as a result of his boss's death - something which could leave him having not
only to have the ability to play a more important role in WW politics (and
to temper whatever strength of character he's developed) but also one step
closer to his ambition of the Minister's post.

Obviously the DE faction within the MoM would try to block him getting
advancement (his family connection would count against him) but it would
also be an interesting test of the strengths of the various factions in the
MoM.

I've speculated a little further than just the Percy point, because if my
thoughts above are true, then it suggests that the MoM is a factionalised
organisation where WW politics are played out within the bureaucracy. How
factionalised I wonder? How strong was the DE faction in Voldemort's
time?How strong are they now?

Cheers

Ffred

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